Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25
For Mistakes in the Karsl Preys-The
Editor OF the Whisky Slide Bang
starter Relates His TribuIatioas,
The Cause of His 1'esving Tovn-A Notice
That He Looked For In Vain,
Chicago Herald.

the concern, and occasionally | have been
in doubt on that point myself.
Saturday nights in the office of the
Whisky Slide BungStarter used TO be
trials to the soul of the able editor OF
that enterprising journal. There wss al
ways the devil to pay then, and adyertis-
ers used to think the paper ought to
take its pay in quartz crushers, amalga-
mating pans and wIndmiIls, which were
not legal tender in the camp.
By the way, trust have made it clear
that the devil I'm speaking OF is not the
ordinary, orthodox, personal devil of his
tory-tne chap at whom Martin Luther
pegged tue inkstsnd AIthougltbere is a
striking similarity III traits, and have
more than once essayed the Luther acE
with my devil.
Whisky Slide was hurrah town 10 the
Sour Mash mining district. The Bung-
starter was the local paper, and | had 10
take 1t, name and all, and run it, or bend
the whole weight of my intellect to the
less dangerous but more precaTious our
suit of rse-stealing. Being g poor
rider, and having shotgun that would
scatter so as to cover the door of the
sancsum from the desk, | put aside con.
scientiOus scruples and consented TO
mold public opinion in Whisky Slide for
what | could make out of the paper. In
the leisure hours and on Supdays | gen
orally melted CID type from the heIlbox,
and the devil and moulded buCkshot
To return TO the devil and the dance lie
led ne. Talk about typograp hical errors!
1 The Bungstarter committed some of the
most stupendous Typographical errors on
record. The editor had TO hide out in the
/ chapparil fora week at a time on account
OF them. The DEVILS duties IL the Office
were numerous. He built the fires of
course, and Interrupted the train of ed
ltOrlal thought every ten seconds by COM
ing IN and demanding copy in hard, in
sIstent, authoritative tone that was caIcu-
lated to Incite g riot or an editorial revolt
When he WASH making s wild-eyed luna
! tic of the editor he was sticking type or
incorrecting galleys. His genius ran
mostly toward making toe Bungstarter
impart interesting and lUyid misinforma-
ton of an eclectic character.
The Hon. Hugh Nolan made q witty
political speech one night, and the next
morning the Mayor of Whisky Slide was
buried. The two events Just happened to
occur in the order mentioned, and are
not Intended to be stated as cause and
effect. The Bungstarter had reports of
the speech and the funeral sermon ia the
afternoon. The report OF the speech was
rather heavy, being the work Of young
man from college who was & journalist
ana scraped up local news. | told the
foreman to have the speech liyened up
with the usual standing parenthetical
notes. He sent the JOB to the devil. who
got hold of the wrong galley, OF course.
When the paper came out that funeral
sermon was daisy effort. II was some
thing like this: owe look for the last
time upon the features of one who hut
few short days ago was in the prime of
life and health. Cheers a wise
providence has seen fit TO remove him
from our midst applause and we bow
numbly in submission. lie was a kind
father, faithful husband, laughter an
upright, publiC-spirited citizen, anu q
conscientious, scrupulous man Of bust
ness. Roars If laughter Take him
all in all, we meier shall look upon his |
like again" Prolonged applause The !
above is only sample Of tlat sermon re- |
port as it appeared after the devil got
through monkeying with it. The Mayors |
family and friends felt hurt. and when The /
minister came around and fired six A. |
Calibre bullets through the window | /
inferred from my position behind the |
door of the safe that he eIso was dis
pleased.
When the ripple of excitement had |
subsidized returned from over the divide !
and wrote q touching obituary of the !
] journalist from Harvard, who was really I
u better long distance runner than /, but |
didn't start soon enough after the paper |
came out. The unfortunate affair was
explained as typographical error, and !
the Mayors widow squared herself with
tue deceased journalist by planting
dahliss on his grave. He was q nice
young man, even before he was buried,
put he didn't have the "sabe" and pres
ence of mind requisite for success as q
newspaper man in Whisky Slide. No
doubt he has gone to pleasanter place,
whichever trail he took.
Another Of the devils duties was paint
ing bulletins with shoe blackiug He was
literal in that work. One
day we had lot of CUFF in the paper
about the dolngs Of the legislature and
the new bills passed. TIE bulletin was
crowded. I had sent down more lines
than the devil could letter in time, so 1
made marks against some OF them, and
added as an instruction to the matter-Ot-
.act fend: Anything marked can be
killed" The bulletin put NJ read this
way:
New live stock ill passed
Anything marked can be killed.
1t caused trouble within half an hour.
;oyote Sam came in fromSthe North Fork
Ind filed up with soothing syrup. He
;illed three mules belonging to the Sour
Nash Mining Company, cleaned out the
NL store by riding in and charging on
key Jacobs and his clerks with bowie
.nife, raided the express office and
)ut two snOtS through the leg of
i'm Sloan, whose trousers were re-en-
creed with z piece of triple y HaxaII
our bag. Juan 5 inchez got lasso over
IAN and endorsed him, and the dissi-
ated cuss had the cheek to explain mis-
isoTderly conduct TO the vigilance com
nittee by asserting that as deputy sheriff
( CalayeTas ne was only carrying into
feet the acts of the Legislature. He
Ointed to the Bangstarter's bulletin
GARD aad the y brand on the dead mules.
'nce more the editor went out the back
7sy and spent the night fOrked over the
NIB OF sequoia tree on the mountain
ide, where he could hear the hoarse
lurmuzs of the mob and see their ian
rms fitting like firefies al ong the trail
D the Cullen.
This blew over, IS all the other little
fairs did, and the Bungstarter fourished
S the Democratic organ of the county
ntil the devil one day made the greatest
fort of his mlsspent life and the dun
typographical error ever known.
lie set up the wrong side CT q clipping
rom the Red Dog Republican and inside